The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 50
“What are you talking about?” cried the father, pale with horror.
Who acts: you, father · What happens: talk about, cry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 talking | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 talking | obl |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 talking | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 talking | nsubj |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | csubj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 talking | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 talking | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 talking | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 father | det |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pale | punct |
| 13 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 father | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 horror | case |
| 15 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pale | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk about in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the father | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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